Amanda de Cadenet

Career

1990–1999: Early career At age 18, de Cadenet began her career as a co-presenter for The Word, a late-night Channel 4 entertainment show in 1990–1995. They moved from the United Kingdom to Los Angeles the following year. She embarked upon a short-lived movie career, appearing in Allison Anders's segment of the 1995 anthology film Four Rooms, Fall (1997) and Brokedown Palace (1999).

2000–present: New ventures Her career then turned to fashion and portrait photography, working for magazines such as Spin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zoe Saldaña and Jane Fonda. During the production of The Conversation, she developed a second show with Lifetime, a weekly late-night television talk show featuring de Cadenet entitled, Undone with @AmandadeCadenet. The show ran for six episodes in 2014. In 2018, she worked with Showtime to develop a pilot for a half-hour weekly news-magazine show tentatively titled Now What With Amanda de Cadenet. The show did not air. In 2019, she developed a ten-episode spin-off podcast of The Conversation in partnership with Spotify.

In 2016, de Cadenet founded Girlgaze, a global online, multi-sided platform which connects women and non-binary creatives with different businesses, companies and brands. Speaking on her role as CEO and past experience as a photographer, she said “I'm interested in the stories [women and nonbinary] people have to tell, because of my own experience of being shut out of so many creative opportunities because of my gender.” For this work, Fast Company named her one of 2020's "Most Creative People in Business."

In 2017, she released her second book and collection of photography, #girlgaze: How Girls See the World. This was followed in 2018 by a book of essays published by Harper Wave titled It's Messy: On Boys, Boobs, and Badass Women.

Personal life De Cadenet was born in Hampstead, London and is the daughter of Anna, (née Gerrard) an interior designer and model. Her father was former racing car driver Alain de Cadenet, her parents separated, when she was 9, and her brother Alexander was 7. At 14, without permission, she left home, to live with friends, and sought modelling work, meeting a young Davina McCall, who was working as a model booker. De Cadenet was subject to a Ward of court order and was returned to full time education, with an evening curfew at home. She became a television presenter for Channel 4, from 1990. According to The Times, he "claimed that his French ancestors had fought with Charlemagne in the 9th century".

De Cadenet was married to Duran Duran bassist John Taylor from 1991 until 1997. At the time of their marriage, according to de Cadenet herself, she was only 19, and pregnant, and sober, she subsequently sought recovery from alcohol, following their daughter's birth and their relocation to America. Taylor and de Cadenet have one daughter, Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor.

Other appearances

Whatever Happened to the Wild Child? (2005); TV documentary Barely Famous (2015); reality TV series, 1 episode Embrace: The Documentary (2016) Elles (2018); TV documentary